Mr. H. B. Brady on some Arctie Foraminifera. 395 
observations on the Rhizopoda, which, as far as they affect the 
Arctic area, were confined to four stations, is unfortunately 
incomplete, as no detailed report on the subject has as yet 
appeared ; and this is the more to be regretted as the prelimi- 
nary notice gave promise of valuable additions to our know- 
ledge of the distribution of the northern types. 
On the return of this expedition in the following year, the 
soundings and other similar material which had been collected 
by Capt. H. W. Feilden, R.A., the naturalist in charge, were 
placed in my hands for examination ; and a report upon the 
Rhizopoda contained in them was published soon afterwards*. 
This material comprised gatherings made in twenty-four locali- 
ties, between latitudes 71° 15’ N. and 83° 19’ N., and yielded 
altogether fifty-three species of Foraminifera besides a con- 
siderable list of Radiolaria. From a geographical point of view 
it represented a district considerably further north than any 
previously investigated, the most northerly, indeed, that has 
yet been attained ; and it furnished conclusive evidence that 
there was no diminution in the lower types of animal life in- 
habiting the sea-bottom, at any rate to a point within seven 
degrees of the North Pole. A tabular summary of the Fora- 
minifera of the polar seas accompanied this memoir. 
A brief but interesting paper ‘‘ On Foraminifera from the 
Gulf and River St. Lawrence’’t, was contributed to the 
pages of the ‘ Canadian Naturalist’ in 1870 by Dr. G. M. 
Dawson. ‘Though pertaining to an area far to the south of 
those which have been already mentioned, namely to about 
lat. 49° or 50° N., the Rhizopod-fauna therein described, 
owing probably to the influence of a cold polar current, presents 
a remarkable analogy to that existing at many points within 
the Arctic Circle. 
The various memoirs that have been enumerated all refer 
to those portions of the Arctic sea which lie to the west of the 
European coast-line (that is to say, from the Norwegian coast 
westward to the shores of Greenland, Davis Straits, and the 
adjacent regions) ; and until a year ago, when some soundings 
made by Capt. Markham during a holiday voyage in the 
Novaya-Zemlya Sea, were brought home for examination, 
little or nothing was known of the Microzoa of the sea-bottom 
north of the European continent. A brief report upon Capt. 
Markham’s soundings has recently been published ft; and 
* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 425, pls. xx., xxi. 
+ ‘Canadian Naturalist,’ ser. 2, vol. v. p. 172, woodcuts. 
t “Notes on Rhizopoda obtained from Capt. Markham’s Soundings on 
the Shores of Novaya Zemlya, by Henry B. Brady,” in ‘A Polar Re- 
connaissance,’ by Capt. A. H. Markham, R.N., p. 346 (London, 1881), 
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